77K views · 726 reactions | New South Wales Police Force gave an insight into their Active Armed Offender training program. More than half of NSW’s 16,000 police officers have progressed through the state-of-the-art program since its adoption in November 2015. The program has been designed specifically to equip officers with the additional skills, training and resources they need when first on the scene at a terrorism or high-risk incident. | NSW Police Force | Facebook

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"The Georgia Sun beat down on Fort Stewart's civilian military training center like a hammer on an anvil. Lena Ward stood at the edge of the formation, her posture rigid, her eyes fixed on the middle distance. The black scarf wrapped around her neck absorbed the heat, and the long sleeves of her compression shirt clung to her arms despite the 90° temperature. ""Look at her,"" whispered Derek Martinez to the woman beside him. ""It's like 100° and she's dressed for winter,"" Sarah Chen snickered.

Operation Paperclip was a secret U.S. intelligence program that brought over 1,600 German scientists and engineers to America after World War II, deliberately overlooking their Nazi Party memberships and wartime activities. The program aimed to prevent Soviet Russia from acquiring German scientific knowledge, but in doing so, officials systematically whitewashed the scientists' records, deleting or minimizing evidence of war crimes and connections to the Nazi regime.The program's name came from